Event Archive
Event Archive
Framing Muslims was inaugurated on September 8th 2007 with a one-day workshop at SOAS, University of London. Over the course of the project a number of events are taking place, including a seminar series pairing scholars, journalists and practitioners working on aspects of the representation of Muslims. Venues alternate between the fund-holding institution, the University of East London, SOAS, and Senate House, University of London, but in due course the project will also travel, visiting venues both nationally and internationally. In the Autumn of 2007, Framing Muslims combined with the Inter-University Postcolonial Seminar series, run by Professor Susheila Nasta of the Open University Postcolonial Research Group, to explore ‘Postcolonial Muslim Cultures’.
In this archive you will find a selection of audio recordings from some of these events, available to download as podcasts. Click on the podcast logo to subscribe. You can listen to these in MP3 format or you can download a free QuickTime Player plugin to be able to hear the podcast in Apple Quicktime format, this format has clicable Chapter breaks.
Neo-cons, Neologisms and Iran: the construction of another Islamic enemy
Last Updated on Friday, 20 February 2009 00:21
Annabelle Sreberny analyses the rhetoric used to justify the so-called ‘War on Terror’ and Sarfraz Manzoor describes the opportunities and frustrations of being a Muslim in the contemporary mainstream media in Britain.
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Amina Yaqin - ‘Honour Killings’ as a Muslim Issue in Migrant Writing
Last Updated on Friday, 20 February 2009 00:19
Amina Yaqin is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and Urdu at SOAS, University of London. She has published essays on gender and sexuality in Urdu poetry, Pakistani culture and Indian literature in English. Currently she is revising her monograph entitled Imagining Pakistan: narratives of nation, culture and gender and co-writing a book with Peter Morey on Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation from 9/11 to 7/7 to be published by Harvard University Press.
Read more: Amina Yaqin - ‘Honour Killings’ as a Muslim Issue in Migrant Writing
Peter Morey - Stereotypes and Strangers: Muslims in Film and Television Drama since 9/11
Last Updated on Friday, 20 February 2009 00:16
Peter Morey is Reader in English at the University of East London. He is the author of Fictions of India: Narrative and Power (Edinburgh UP, 2000), Rohinton Mistry (Manchester UP Contemporary World Writer’s Series, 2004), and co-editor of Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism (Rodopi, 2006). He has published widely in the fields of colonial and postcolonial literature, and is currently working on a new monograph, entitled Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation from 9/11 to 7/7, co-authored with Amina Yaqin, to be published by Harvard University Press.
Read more: Peter Morey - Stereotypes and Strangers: Muslims in Film and Television Drama since 9/11
Interview with Mohsin Hamid author of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 16:04
Mohsin Hamid
Author Reading and conversation with Mohsin Hamid from his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2008. It was conducted by Amina Yaqin at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Senate House, University of London, October 2007.
Author Biography: Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. He received his higher education at Princeton University and Harvard Law School in the United States. He worked for several years in Management Consultancy in New York and then as a freelance journalist in Lahore. He now lives and works in London. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in the UK in 2000 by Granta and has been translated into more than ten languages. It won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Pen-Hemmingway Award. His second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, appeared in 2007 with Hamish Hamilton. The novel was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Mohsin is also a journalist whose essays have appeared in publications as diverse as Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and, in this country, The Independent and The Guardian.
Brief Description
Mohsin Hamid reads from his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist which was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In addition to the author reading Mohsin is also in conversation with Dr Amina Yaqin covering a range of topics including his influences, growing up in Lahore, the reception of his novel in the United States and the United Kingdom as well as the importance of history in his writing.
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Inaugural One-Day Workshop, September 8th 2007
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 April 2008 20:44
| This event took place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in Thornhaugh Square, London. Among the speakers were Tariq Ramadan, Tariq Modood, Ziauddin Sardar and Maleiha Malik. Topics covered ranged from Islam in the secular West: Muslim citizenship and law; the politics of dress and on-line shopping; Muslims in the Netherlands and Germany; and the representation of Muslims in news discourse and Hollywood films. |  |
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